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WMAQ Radio Station

Date: 1924
Description: Interior of WMAQ Radio Station with Chief Engineer Donald Weller standing.
Drawing

Robert M. La Follette, Sr.

Date: 1924
Description: Pen sketch of Robert M. La Follette, Sr., by Willy Pogany in 1924. The original bears La Follette's signature.
Photograph

Borglum and La Follette-Wheeler Medallion

Date: 1924
Description: Sculptor Gutzon Borglum at work on his bust of Robert M. La Follette, Sr., and Burton K. Wheeler. The medallion was the official medal of La Follette's Ind...
Postcard

Tall-tale Postcard: This is the Kind of Peaches We Raise

Date: 1924
Description: Photomontage of three women lifting baskets filled with giant peaches. The foreground as lines with other giant peaches. The top of the image is trimmed ...
Print

"Charms of Wisconsin" Sheet Music

Date: 1924
Description: Sheet music for "The Charms of Wisconsin," a composition by Almira E.F. Clements and Sarah Hobson of Pittsville, Wisconsin, that was self-published. Th...
Drawing

Frederick Jackson Turner Drawing

Date: 1924
Description: A hand-drawn cartoon in crayon entitled "Westward The Course Of Empire". It features Frederick Jackson Turner on a rocking horse with a sunset in the backg...
Photograph

Buffalo Bill Monument

Date: 1924
Description: Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney's sculpture entitled "Buffalo Bill - The Scout," which commemorates William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody. The bronze sculptur...
Photograph

High School

Date: 1924
Description: Exterior view of the Cameron High School. The building features three stories, a bell tower, and a flag pole. A home is in the distance.
Photograph

Students and Teacher Displaying Portrait of President

Date: 1924
Description: A civics class and teacher are displaying a portrait of President Woodrow Wilson. They are possibly gathered in the schoolyard.
Photograph

Public School

Date: 1924
Description: View from the road facing the front and side of the public school built in 1905. A swing set is to the left of the school building. The building has an arc...
Photograph

German English Lutheran Church

Date: 1924
Description: Exterior of the German English Lutheran Church. The church has a gable roof and a steeple with a bell. In the foreground is a fence and field, and in the b...
Photograph

Saint Anne's Church and School

Date: 1924
Description: View across Packer Drive of Saint Anne's Catholic Church and Saint Anne Grade School. There is a pile of gravel and other material near a fence in the fore...
Photograph

New and Old School Building

Date: 1924
Description: The new school building during construction, next to the old school building, which has a bell tower on the roof. A man works in the yard on the left near ...
Photograph

Performing Horses

Date: 1924
Description: Three performing horses stand on platforms in a ring as their trainer gestures proudly in the foreground. Behind the ring are banners decorated with horses...
Poster

Keep America American

Date: 1924
Description: Political poster promoting Calvin Coolidge and Charles Dawes for president and vice-president. On the left side are two flags, "Old Glory" and "The Red Fla...
Photograph

"Happiness" Production Still

Date: 1924
Description: On the left, cameraman Chester A. Lyons cranking a Bell & Howell model 2709 and director King Vidor seated next to his megaphone. On the right, a line of a...
Photograph

James Kirkwood, Lila Lee, and their Son

Date: 1924
Description: Silent film director James Kirkwood, his wife the actress Lila Lee, and their infant son James Kirkwood, Jr.
Photograph

Ramon Novarro and his Brother Eduardo Samaniego

Date: 1924
Description: Publicity still of the silent film star Ramon Novarro and his thirteen year old brother Eduardo Samaniego who played the young Novarro in the 1924 Metro-Go...
Photograph

North End of Times Square

Date: 1924
Description: Times Square in New York City facing north on a foggy winter day in January or February. On the right is Loew's State Theatre which is playing "Big Brother...
Photograph

Jerry's Piano Girls

Date: 1924
Description: Jerry's Piano Girls, a Keith vaudeville circuit headliner act.

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